We just are not on your level of genius to understand these things.

So obviously completely full of shit.

At some big companies at least, I think it is a policy to have to post the job publicly even if the person who was waiting in line inside the department for a few years already has it.

I have had two jobs in the past posting inside the department that 2 or 3 people had to waste their time interviewing for with zero chance just as a matter of policy. The manager had to interview x number of people in the name of fairness or something like that.

> At some big companies at least, I think it is a policy to have to post the job publicly even if the person who was waiting in line inside the department for a few years already has it.

Yes, and that is a BS posting.

President Blinken is trying to get a few last things he wants in before cashing out in the private sector.

lol yea or a few bad jobs reports?

I think many got use to the most incredible labor market of a generation or two and we are just now back to something more historically normal.

I don't understand the confidence behind this. Is a good economy only based on having a job?

Average people are struggling to make ends meet and racking up debt. The gap between pay and the cost of goods has only grown in recent years. How is that good for anyone?

>> lol yea or a few bad jobs reports?

Which ones? The ones they released or the ones they re-released after overstating the numbers several times?

October and November were revised up actually. October’s is still pretty bad though w.r.t. expectations

Not sure why you're being downvoted for saying something correct. Most of the "jobs reports" seem to be revised after the fact. I fully do not trust any government (Dem or Rep) to tell us the actual truth about the economy. Why would they tell us if things are bad? It doesn't benefit them politically.

I would think if you aren't trying to develop a brand then you may as well just make the blog private.

I love keeping a blog as my own private journal. I wouldn't want it public though because I can keep it as unstructured/messy as I want with it being private. Mostly a collection or random notes / thoughts / code that I wouldn't want a potential employer to get an impression of me from.

It has huge value to me. The value of reading someone else blog at this point is basically zero to me. Mostly throw away, surface level articles for branding and networking purposes but if that is the dance you are trying to learn then it makes sense.

I don’t have a blog for anything professional. But I do have a blog that is a public personal journal of our frequent travel, including on an off “digital nomadding”.

I don’t have ads, affiliate links nor do I care about traffic or have any analytics. I doubt that it gets any real traffic. By keeping it public, the only benefit I see is that it encourages me to at least care about my writing. It’s just my spot on the internet.

https://digitalnomadder.micro.blog/

I am a conservative but I can't imagine how anyone is not tired of Musk at this point.

Not 1984 but just standard 20th century type dangerous cult of personality with one person having way too much power.

I'm not a big fan of Musk either outside of Tesla/SpaceX/StarLink.

But if it's not Musk, it's the DNC, if it's not the DNC, it's someone else. I don't see how it detracts from X still being a good platform. You have to curate your TL, yes -- but you've always had to do that!

Perhaps there's a little bit too much reporting on him.

I wish this was true as being a shitty programmer who is old , I would benefit from this as much as anyone here but I think it is delusional.

From my experience I wouldn't even say LLMs are stupid. The LLM is a carrier and the intelligence is in the training data. Unfortunately, the training data is not going to get smarter.

If any of this had anything to do with reality then we should already have a programming specific model only trained on CS and math textbooks that is awesome. Of course, that doesn't work because the LLM is not abstracting the concepts how we normally think of in order to be stupid or intelligent.

It hardly shocking that next token prediction on math and CS textbooks is of limited use. You hardly have to think about it to see how flawed the whole idea is.

I agree with you but I think we are kind of the oddballs at this point.

It does seem quite normal now to keep up with people you haven't seen in 10 years in person and will never see again. Maybe even people you would go out of your way to make sure you don't see in person but you can give them a thumbs up when they post a picture of their lunch.

I have no idea why anyone does this but it would be hard for me to say that not having any social media like us is "normal".

When I was 20, no one my age had got incredibly wealthy or famous who wasn't an actor or musician.

It is like a hyper version of de Tocqueville now. No matter how poor someone is, they still don't feel that far from being rich and famous in America.

This creates enormous status anxiety coupled with the reality of student loans and inflation it is a really bad deal for young people's mental health.

At this point, the lack of progress since April 2023 is really what is shocking.

I just looked on midjourney reddit to make sure I wasn't missing some new great model.

Instead what I notice is the small variations on the themes I have already seen a thousand times a year ago now. Midjourney is so limited in what it can actually produce.

I am really worried that all this is much closer to a parlor trick than AGI. "simple trick or demonstration that is used especially to entertain or amuse guests"

It all feels more and more like that to me than any kind of progress towards general intelligence.